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Push and pull homemade toy box for children

June 13, 2017 by Kate 7 Comments

Here is a super simple push and pull homemade toy box you can make for children to play with. Using only a few materials that you’d find around your home or classroom, you can make this toy and it will be one that your child will have fun playing with and learn from many times over. 

Push and pull homemade toy box for children

A few years ago I made a homemade toy, which I called ‘The Tugging Box‘ and you guys absolutely went crazy for it. I have to agree, it was a great toy to make and one that really taps into the natural instincts of a child. Well in light of that, I’ve made another cool idea. It’s a push and pull homemade toy box for children to play with.

Recommended ages: 2 years +
(Strict and active supervision is required at all times)  
holes in shoe box for push and pull game or homemade toy

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Push and pull homemade toy box for children

To make your very own push and pull homemade toy box you will need – 

  • Firm box (I used a shoe box)
  • Scissors
  • Thick drinking straws

preparing the poke and pull play box for fun with kids. Great homemade toy
To make this push and pull homemade toy box you simply want to make some small holes into the top of the box. I used my scissors to do this. As I was making the holes I was cautious to not hurt myself and not make the holes too large or too small for the straws to fit through. 
Push and pull toy homemade

Importance of push and pull toys

We are absolutely surrounded by push and pull forces. Gravity keeps us to the ground and even our daily actions include the push and pull force. Think about your daily life and how often you need to pull open a door or even push it closed. 

Children can practice this scientific force of push and pull by playing with various push and pull toys, or you can make then a push and pull homemade toy box. This incorporates both the pushing and pulling motion. 
using push and pull toy

Learning behind the push and pull homemade toy box

Boo (aged 2.5 years) absolutely loved playing with this homemade toy and used it over and over again. 

Some of the reasons I love it as her mother is  –

  • it teaches a child both the push and pull motion
  • develops hand – eye coordination
  • develops fine motor skills
  • improves colour identification 
  • can be used to include counting and one to one correspondence 

playing with play box pull and push. A homemade toy kids love

 

 

using straws in DIY homemade toy

Including push and pull toys in your child’s daily play is very important, because when you think about it, we use these forces everyday in our daily life! Here is a simple to make push and pull homemade toy for children to having fun with over and over again. 

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Filed Under: 0 - 12 months, 1 - 3 years, activities for toddlers, Fine Motor, Play Tagged With: box, fine motor, homemade, push and pull

Comments

  1. satya says

    June 20, 2017 at 8:26 pm

    great work im addicted to this blog

    Reply
    • Kate says

      June 20, 2017 at 8:44 pm

      Awwww thank you so kindly!

      Reply
  2. Olga Parker says

    June 24, 2017 at 5:46 pm

    Great idea, that’s a task for kids to fit a straw into a hole in the box, cool to develop eye and hand coordination. Thanks for sharing, we’ll play this all day long 🙂

    Reply
    • Kate says

      June 25, 2017 at 9:55 am

      Thank you kindly Olga! It’s a great idea for kids.

      Reply

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